The scientific revolution dated back to the sixteenth century and went through the eighteenth century. The scientific revolution began with the study of astronomy and physics and ended after René Descartes’s idea of deductive reasoning. Religious authorities rejected the Copernican system at first because it did not correlate with the Bible but later began to accept the scientific revolution. Secular authorities did not reject the idea of the scientific revolution because it promoted new …showed first 75 words of 506 total…

…showed last 75 words of 506 total…up with new ideas and technology which was good for the economy. Science became an accepted part of life and developed rapidly in England after about 1640. The scientific revolution was a time of great change in the view of the universe and how the Earth and people functioned. The scientific revolution came up with the idea of reasoning and that ideas should not be based on faith but on mathematics leading to the Enlightenment age.